Friday, May 20, 2005

Chicken?

There are some who think this idea (or ayyy-deuh, or biz-niss maw-dll) can be replicated in other parts of the country. Their number includes my Blogger-in-the-Flesh who (like his hair) remains largely Uncut (yes, this is sheer envy speaking) and a correspondent with a wonderfully evocative name. (Digression - our friend in college, Jane Mary John, soon became Jane Meri Jaan. Her shyam-borno boyfriend, of course, was Tar-jane).I would advise them to do a market survey first.

Because it really wouldn't work in Bengal, you know. We've got it down pat here, we don't need to outsource the event management, "our boys" can handle it well enough, thank you very much. They've been doing it for years, why should we give somebody else the chance to make a little on the side?

And even in the supposedly apolitical Pnnn-jaabb-uh, I came across the "rum and rally" idea three years ago. Only there they called it "pagg-uh hore lagg-uh", which (translated for those who don't understand this most melodious of all languages) means "a peg and a leg". Nothing to do with Long John Silver (Digression #2 - the original title idea for "Treasure Island" was "The Sea Cook"), but a Peg of Whiskey and a Leg of Chicken. Of the National Bird of the region, in fact. To wit, Tnn-doooree Chik-ken.

In the constituency where I'd been sent, one candidate's election platform was a large trailer drawn by a Tata Safari. Loaded with CRATES of Solan whiskey and the charred remains of a poultry farm. His appetites were as large as his heart. For every sip he offered, he would take one himself; his day's canvassing ending only when he subsided into the trailer, snoring blissfully. At which point his nephew (on Safari with him, so to speak) would steer homewards. Steer a little erratically, since Said Nephew shared the family trait of appreciating the simple pleasures (or plai-years) of life.

Within the letter of the law, this school of campaigning amounted to soliciting for votes with promise of gain. Another candidate ventured to complain about these methods. The native Punjabi, however, has a large heart. The complainant was immediately rebuked and shushed by at least three other candidates, the largest of whom turned to me and said, with a dismissive wave of a huge hand, 'Wo koi nahin jee, bacche thod-di si jo pee pah lehnde so ki fark painda'.

Sadly enough, the devotee of Bacchus lost his deposit. Quite a pity. His career in the Assembly could have been of considerable interest.

(Digression #3 - I now have an Actual Post with Links to Other Posts. I am well on my way to becoming a Serious Blogger. Maybe even - be still, my beating heart! - a Libertarian Despite Being in Gormante. [And I thought that only the C-hollege Mafia could be so entirely patronising!] Oh frabjous day!)

bolchhi je, I am Tip Tree, not Tree Tip. And dont know how it opens in a new window but Amit Uncut's blog does that. Its all in the code, dude. Call your friendly neighbourhood HTML writer for more Tips. Kamon?

Amit Uncut's blog does not do that, youthful tree dweller. User can jolly well open in new window, or as the case for 43% of my readers would be, in new tab. Links opening in new window doesn't always suit firefox user, who may use tabs to surf. Though if he/she/it opens in new tab anyway, same difference.

Amit saar, it is easy to make new windows open as new tabs in Firefox. I'll try to figure out which of the million extensions I use allows you to set this, and let you know :) Probably Tabbrowser Preferences or something...

Raju Bhaiyya. Thanks for ad-vice, I didn't know that. In any case, power-users open in new window or tab anyway, so putting in extra code with every link is best avoided, I think. Which brings me to Vagueji's question, I don't know of any such code that automates all links opening in new windows, though I'm really bad at the tech stuff, Raju Bhaiyya may know.

And boss, thanks for that scroll-click tip, I never knew that. Outstanding effort-saver!

Neha, smile. Other great bloggers don't have comments disabled, and young JAP is just jealous. ;)

Gorment saar, yes the target,blank etc thingy does it when you insert it for every link that you have created. I was wondering if there was a code that could automate it to be default for all links one created, but nevermind, this has been confusing enough.(and heck, i wouldn't even actually use a default new window setup!)

The Firefox thing is truly outstanding, yes. With increased Firefox use and mass distribution of wheel mouses, 'target=_blank" would be consigned to the html recycle bin as far as I am concerned.

saar your sidebar links not all working, saar. Please forgive if bengali ladies also saying same thing. But it is very good to be seeing you make ventures into the linking part of this wonderful world of blogging, saar...(i remain, etc...)

Eeee! Shcandal, dada, Shcandal, jooto holo sandal. Khud Gawr-bore karke bhale manoosh ko daante? I sent working code, it went wrong when you tried to insert "Life on Earth" in third place, the code I sent had "Phuntastic" third, as in your blogrolling thingie-ta. What, saar, shimple caat-pashte giving problem? What you bhill run gorment then? Start a gaarment company, any ackshidentul slits and shortages will be ashcribed to fashun.

Just saw your source, JAP. You've inserted the target_blank thingies wrong. That bit of code is coming after the link starts from the third link onwards, while it should come at the end of the previous link. (Tried cut-pasting example of what I mean, but this blogger comments thingie is not accepting as a comment.) I suggest you just copy all the links for the newspapers onto that space, and cut-paste the relevant links. Email me if urgent help required, am online. And preview before saving template changes.